So I'm just setting up nginx and php5-fpm on my VPS, having moved over from Apache. I'm running Debian Squeeze, with the latest PHP from the dotdeb.org repo (that means PHP 5.4.13-1~dotdeb.1).

I am having trouble getting php5-fpm going. When run /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start, I don't get any confirmation, nor any error signals. Same for running /etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop. If I pass it the status arg, it returns php5-fpm is not running ... failed!

Now I can't see any errors in any log, so I'm at a losss as to how to even start to debug the error.

Has anyone experience similar problems, or knows what I should do next?

Many thanks!